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Show j The farms are suffering f Plenty of Good Paying just makea me tired to look ' Jobs On inarms ' at these fellows loafing ! Py S. M. Pexm, Actieuhmril Aguri around the parka of New " NewY"k '" York when they might be I earning good money in tb country'." Most of them ure abie-lxdicd men, who Trill tell you that tiiey have huDted a job until they are worn out in body and in spirit Maybe they have, but their - horwon is bounded by the tw rivers about this island and Fourteenth street. Why don't they go on the farms? Jliey -wouldn't have to esk twice for work there. No, I don't, mean the farms in the west, but the farms near Not? 7ork. What the farmers want is help to care for their crops, and they ax; willing and able to pay for it ; Many of these fellows loafing here would be glad to get jobs at $2 a day so long as they could stay in the city. Farm labor pays quire as wu, if not better than that, besides offering other advantages. Say a man gets $2 a day in the city and works twenty-six days lathe la-the month. That makes $52. Out of this he pays car fares, at least, which reduce his income somewhat. Deduct further his house or room rent and his food, and' there isn't a whole lot left for clothing and savings, or spendings, whichever he may incline to. It will cost him at least SG a week, or $2G a month, just to keep himself, leaving him $26 a month for other purposes. Any farmer is willing to pay from $30 to $40 a month for a hand, he ides boa rd and lodging. You don't have to be a mathematician to tfgure out the advantage of working on a farm, financially, over working", for $2 a day in he city. But there are other advantages as well. The hired help eats with the farmer and his family, so there is nw .question about the qnality of the food, and everybody knows that it ia Wter than the average table of the laborer in the city. ' Instead of working in the dust and dirt of the streets or in the con--fined air of a shop or factory the farm laborer is out in the open all the rtimc, building up his breathing apparatus while his muscles are keeping in good shape. jje has plenty of milk, fresh vegetables galore and solid meat for Ma meals, instead of a cheese sandwich and a glass of beer. There is no stuffiness stuffi-ness about the place where he sleeps, either, and he doert have to lie on the firo escape on hot nights to get enough air to keep him torn j suffocating. |